Finishing up our week at Cinnamon Shore and have had a great time. Beautiful little community very much in the same vein as Seaside and Rosemary Beach. Of course the beach is not as nice as in Florida, but with a couple of small children, the trade-off of a shorter drive and the ability to drive a golf cart all the way to our beach chairs is worth it.
Only thing I'll say that's disappointing, having not been to a Texas beach since I was a kid: the beaches here are so trashy. What's up with that? The crew at Cinnamon Shore rake the beach, but still have some trash. Driving further down the beach, there is trash everywhere. Not sure what it is about the beach here that it gets so much more trashed out than the Florida panhandle, but it kinda sucks.